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AT THE CAPITAL.
The Silver Debate in the
Senate.
Pnjrh and Farwell Voice Their
Sentiments.
Passage of an Amendment to the In
ternal Revenue Law.
Contested Election Cases on Deck in the
'House—McDuffle vs. Turpin—Mil
ler vs. Elliott.
Associated Press Dispatches. I
Washington, June 3.—ln the senate
today among the memorials presented
and referred were resolutions from the
Louisiana legislature extending thanks
to congress and the president for relief
afforded sufferers during the late floods.
The senate bill for preventing the
adulteration of food and drugs was re
ported and placed on the calendar.
The resolution offered yesterday by
Edmunds for an investigation by the
committee on fisheries into the charges
of mismanagement of the fish commis
sioner's office, was taken up, and after
discussion laid over.
The committee on education and
labor reported the senate bill to provide
lor the obligatory attendance at school
of children in Alaska, and the senate
bill (without recommendation) to
organize bureaus of information relating
to employment, occupation and means
of livelihood. Placed on the calendar.
The silver bill was taken up, and
Pugh addressed the senate. His speech
was largely devoted to criticism of the
tariff bill.
Internal Revenue Law Amended.
At the conclusion of Pugh's speech
the silver bill was temporarily laid aside
and the following senate bill was taken
from the calendar ami passed :
To amend a section of the revised
statutes so as to make it read : "Any
person who withdraws any fermented
liquor from any hogshead, barrel or keg,
or other vessel, upon which the proper
stamp has not been affixed, for the pur
pose of bottling the same, or who carries
on the business of bottling fermented
liquor in any brewery or other place in
which fermented liquor is made, or upon
any premises having communication
with a brewery or warehouse, shall be
liable to a fine"of $500, and the property
used in such bottling or business shall
be liable to forfeiture. Provided, how
ever, that this section shall not be con
strued to prevent the withdrawal and
transfer of fermented liquors from any
of the vats in a brewery, by way of a
pipe line or other conduit to another
building or place for the sole purpose of
bottling the same; such pipe line or
conduit to be constructed and operated
under such rules and regulations as shall
be prescribed by the commissioner of
internal revenue, subject to the approval
of the secretary of the treasury;
and all locks and seals prescribed shall
be provided by the commissioner of in
ternal revenue at the expense of the
United States. Provided, further, that
the tax imposed in section 3,339, revised
statutes, shall be paid on all fermented
liquor removed from a brewery to a bot
tling house by means of a pipe or con
duit at the time of such removal by can
cellation and defacement, by the collec
tor of the district, of the number of
stamps denoting the tax on the fer
mented liquors thus removed. Stamps
thus canceled and defaced shall be dis
posed of and accounted for in the man
ner directed by the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, with the approval of the
secretary of the treasury, and a violation
of the rules and regulations hereafter
prescribed by the commissioner of in
ternal revenue, with the approval of the
secretary of the treasury, in pursuance
of these provisions, shall be subject to
the penalties above provided by this
section. Every agent, owner or superin
tendent of any brewery or bottling
house who removes or connives at the
removal of any fermented liquor through
a pipe line or conduit without the pay
ment of the tax thereon, or who at
tempts to defraud the revenue as above,
shall forfeit all liquors made by and for
him and all utensils and apparatus used
in making the same."
To provide for the exportation of fer
mented liquor in bond without the pay
ment of internal revenue tax, the bill
provides that from and after January,
1801, fermented liquor may be removed
from the place of manufacture or storage
for export to a foreign country, without
the payment of tax, in such packages,
and under such regulations, and upon
giving such notice of entries, bonds and
other security as the commissioner of
internal revenue, with the approval of
the secretary of the treasury, may from
time to time prescribe ; and no drawback
of tax shall be allowed on fermented
liquor exported on and after January 1,
1891, unless entered for exportation prior
to such date.
Far-well Speaks on Silver.
The silver bill was again taken up, and
Farwell addressed the senate. He de
clared himself in full accord with the
purposes of the bill, but said he was in
favor of going still further. He would
use for money all the silver offered, and
not a stipulated sum as provided for in
the bill, and he would coin it at its mar
ket value. If the price of silver should
advance to a par with gold (as the friends
of the bill claimed it would, then free
coinage would come as a matter of
course. What objection could there
be, he asked, to putting into the
silver dollar one hundred cents' worth
of silver. Two other things were neces
sary ; the national bank system should
be preserved, and the sub-treasury sys
tem abolished. When these measures
were adopted the people could get all
the money they needed. The issuing by
the government, under the pending bill,
of treasury notes with silver bullion be
hind them as security, furnished a cir
culation that was absolutely safe and
could not be redundant, and would still
supply the monthly retirement of the
national bank currency. The national
bank system should be perpetuated by
substituting other bonds than United
States bonds, to secure their circulation.
The people would then utilize all the
best bonds of the country and would
procure such a circulation as the busi
ness of the country demanded. The
treasury notes to be issued under the
bill would add largely to the cir
culating medium. He did not think
that it was within the province
of congress to determine the amount of
circulating medium, but some law like
the national banking law should be the
means by which the people could deter
mine that matter for themselves. His
THE LOS ANGELES HERALD: WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 4, 1890.
object in favoring the abolition of the
sub-treasury was to have all the money
of the people in the channels of business
as it was before the passage of the inde
pendent treasury act, in 1840. The
money now in the sub-treasuries would,
in the adoption of national banks, be
without adequate security for the whole
amount deposited. Another reason for
the change would be that the money
would be handled by the national banks
without any cost to the government, and
the saving thus effected would be an ag
gregate of several hundred thousand dol
lars per annum. He did not favor the
repeal of the independent treasury act
for the purpose of benefiting the banks.
Rifled Sea Coast Mortars.
At the close of Farwell's speech the
silver bill was laid aside, and the fortifi
cation bill taken up. The amendment
to increase the appropriation for rifled
sea coast mortars from $250,000 to $400,
--000 was agreed to.
Without further action on the bill
the senate adjourned.
House Proceedings.
In the house today the senate bill was
passed changing the boundaries of the
reservation of the Uncompahgre Utes.
The house then proceeded to considera
tion of the Alabama contested election
case of McDuffie vs. Turpin.
Comstock, of Minnesota, opened the
discussion with argument in favor of the
claims of the contestant. Crisp pre
sented the claims of the contestee.
Pending further debate the house ad
journed.
MILLER VS. ELLIOTT.
A Sensational Report on a South Caro
lina Election Case.
Washington, June 3. —The majority
report in the case of Miller vs.
from the Seventh South Carolina dis
trict, was submitted to the house com
mittee on elections today. The report
is somewhat sensational, in that it de
clares that the entire South Carolina
registration and election laws are un
constitutional. The basis for this dec
laration is that the state law imposes a
number of restrictions upon the exercise
of the right of suffrage which are in con
flict with the state constitution. The
report also states that a number of
negroes have been compelled by poverty
while waiting the maturing of their cot
ton crops, to negotiate their registration
certificates to traders, who immediately
sent them to political headquarters,
with the result that the negroes are per
manently disfranchised. The report re
cites the fact that in certain precincts
ballot boxes were separated in the case
of each office, and that voters were de
frauded by intentional shifting of boxes,
so that the judges of election were able
to throw out all of the ballots cast in
the wrong boxes. There was also, says
the report, evidence of ballot-box stuf
fing. Summing up, it is found that
taking the position most favorable to
the sitting member, the contestant,
Miller, had a majority of 757, while if
the law is strictly followed, his majority
will reach 1,443. Wilson, of Missouri,
will prepare the minority report.
PTJRB FOOD AND DRUGS.
The Senate 111 for the Prevention of
Adulteration.
Washington, June 3.—Senator Pad
dock today reported favorably from the
committee on agriculture, a substitute
for all the pure food bills which have
been introduced in the senate. The
bill provides that there shall be organ
ized in the department of agriculture a
food division, whose chief shall receive
$3,000 per annum, and be charged with
duly procuring and having analyzed
samples of food and drugs sold in any
state and territory, other than where
manufactured. The introduction in any
state or territory, from another state or
territory, of any adulterated food or
drugs, is prohibited, under the pen
alty of a fine and imprisonment.
Any drug shall be deemed adulterated
when it differs within the knowledge
of the seller from the standard of
strength, quality or purity laid down in
the United States pharmacopoeia or
other standard works; or when its
strength or purity falls below the pro
fessed standard under which it is sold.
Food or drink shall be held to be
adulterated when any substance has
been knowingly mixed or packed with
it so as to reduce or lower or injuriously
alfect its quality or strength, or when
any valuable constituent of the article
has been wholly or in part abstracted,
and if it contain within the knowledge
of the seller any added poisonous or in
jurious ingredient. Persons are required
under penalty to submit for analysis
samples of food, drink or drugs, and an
official analysis shall be made of such
articles whenever the same is demanded
by any responsible person.
SMUGGLED CHINESE.
The Heathen Still Sneaking Over the
Southern and Northern Borders.
Washington, June 3.—A. Willard,
United States consul at Guaymas, Mex
ico, in a letter transmitted to the senate
today, reports the arrival of still more
Chinamen at Mazatlan. Thirty-nine
Chinamen whose arrival at Guaymas
was reported in a previous letter, Wil
lard states have left Guaymas for towns
in Sonora, near the frontier, and are
waiting for an opportunity to cross the
border. The United States officers were
notified.
Levi W. Myers, United States consul
at Victoria, B. C, tells how twenty-two
Chinamen were undoubtedly smuggled
into the United States by the steamer
North Star. The Chinamen were taken
aboard the vessel about midnight, and
although the Canadian collector had
men watching her, she slipped out of the
harbor in safety and managed to elude
a pursuing tug sent after her. The
price charged for this work is $20 per
head. Myers says: "If this practice is
not stopped more cutters must be
placed on the sound, and spies must be
employed to aid the Canadian author
ities."
PORTER WILL PROSECUTE.
Penalties for Obstructing- the Census to
be Enforced.
Washington, June 3.—Census Super
intendent Porter today called the atten
tion of the department of justice to vio
lations reported to him of two sections
of the census law. One imposes a pen
alty for refusing to answer census ques
tions ; the other a penalty for refusal on
the part of enumerators to perform their
duties after taking oath. Up to noon
he had received information of cases of
twenty-five persons in different parts of
the country, who refuse to furnish any
information. Porter intends to prose
cute with vigor all violations of the law
reported to him.
Chief Bell Bounced,
Washington, June 3.—John S. Bell,
chief of the secret service, haying failed
to comply with the request for his resig
nation, has been dismissed. His suc
cessor has not yet been selected.
Children Cry for Pitcher's Castorlau
LIGHTNING'S PRANKS.
k Big Powder Magazine
Exploded.
Many Buildings Wrecked in
the Vicinity.
A Mother and Her Babes Crushed in
the Ruins.
lowa Home For Feeble-Minded Wrecked
By a Hurricane—Two of the
Inmates Killed.
Associated Press Dispatches.]
Mansfield, 0., June 3. —This after
noon, during a heavy storm, lightning
struck Tracy & Avery's powder house,
located a mile east of the city. The
house contained over 5,000 pounds of
powder, which exploded, causing a tre
mendous report. Hundreds of windows
in the city were broken, china and glass
ware knocked from shelves, and people
thrown from their feet. Many build
ings in the vicinity were badly
wrecked. Two frame dwelling houses
on the opposite side of the street
from the magazine were leveled to the
ground. One of the houses was vacant;
the other was occupied by Henry Roost,
wife and two children. The husband
was absent at the time of the explosion.
A six-months-old babe was instantly j
killed. The mother and other child are
thought to be fatally injured. Nothing
remains of the powder-house. Bricks
were scattered in all directions, some
being found a quarter of a mile distant.
DISASTROUS STORM.
The lowa Home for the Feeble-Minded
Blown Down.
Council Bluffs, June 3. —The A/on
pareil's Glennwood special says: One of
the most disastrous storms that ever
visited this section struck Glennwood
early this morning. The state's institu
tion for the feeble-minded was blown
down. The roof of the building
was crushed by the falling of
a smoke stack, which tore its
way through the building, killing
two inmates, Willie Cline and Wesley
Emery. Their bodies were crushed al
most to a pulp. Six other inmates were
severely injured, of whom one or two
may die. The new building in course of
construction withstood the storm. Sev
eral other buildings were wrecked. The
canning factory poses with one side
blown in, while the Glennwood mills
were badly damaged.
MILTIMORE'S MUDDLE.
A St. Louis Finn Involved in Trouble
with Him.
AVashington, June 3. —When the an
nouncement was made that Captain
Alonzo L. Miltimore. quartermaster of
the department of Arizona, U. S. A.,
was to be tried by court-martial, at
Tucson, on charges of fraud against the
government, it was intimated that he
was involved in a questionable transac
tion when stationed in St. Louis several
years ago; that although he could not
now be punished, there were others in
volved who might be readied by the
civil courts. The treasury department
looked into the matter, and, as a result,
proceedings have been instituted at St.
Louis against Hartley, Cantwell & Co.,
of that city, to recover $53,000, alleged to
have been fradulently obtained from the
government, with the aid of Miltimore.
It is charged that the firm presented
vouchers for supplies never delivered,
which Miltimore had paid by the gov
ernment. The spoils thus obtained, it is
charged, were divided between the two.
THE TARIFF BILL.
The Senate Finance Committee Con
tinues Its Labor.
AVashington, June 3. —The sub-com
mittee of the Republican senate iinance
committee, continued consideration of
the tariff bill today. Tiie wool schedule
was passed. The sugar schedule was
laid over for the present, it being
deemed best to await the return of Mor
rill and Sherman before taking up a
subject of such importance.
Two New York fur dealers, represent
ing, they said, one hundred houses en-
I gaged in the preparation of furs and the
I manufacture of fur goods, were given a
hearing. They asked that the duties on
furs and fur goods in the house bill, be
increased on account of the competi
tion of cheap foreign labor.
The sub-committee also passed over
without action, the tobacco and wines
schedules which, with sugar, occupy
twenty pages of the printed bill.
Absorbing the "Scio" Line.
New York, June 3.—lt is reported
that negotiations have been practically
completed for the absorption of the
"Soo" line by the Canadian Pacific.
This line runs from Sault Ste. Mary
south to St. Paul, thence to Iloynton,
Dakota, 800 miles. If the Canadian Pa
cific absorbs the road it will doubtless
renew the subject lately discussed in
congress of the rights of Canadian rail
roads in this country.
An Overdue Vessel.
New York, June 3.—Some uneasiness
has been felt about the steamer La Bour
gogne, as she is overdue. The Eider,
which has come in, reports the Bour
gogne disabled, but the nature of her ac
cident is unknown, as she is still out
side.
Later—She was compelled to slow up
on account of her machinery overheat
ing. She is not disabled.
Itayne Refuses Renomination.
PrrrsncKO, June 3.—Hon. Thomas M.
Bayne, congressman from the twenty
third district, refused renomination to
day. He gave as the reason that he was
overworked and worn out. Two-thirds
of the convention favored him.
Colonel William A. Stone, ex-United
States district attorney, was nominated.
In the twenty-second district, Hon.
John Dallzell was renominated.
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SERVICE PENSIONS.
The House and Senate Committees Una
ble to Agree.
Washington, June 3.—After a talk
yesterday between Senator Davis and
Representative Morrill, chairmen of the
two committees on pensions, it was be
lieved an agreement would be formally
reached today by the conferees on the
general pension bill, but when the bouse
conferees came up this morning with in
structions of the Republican caucus of
last night to maintain the principle of
service pensions, it was manifest that
an agreement could not be secured, and
a vote to report their disagreement to
the respective houses was adopted.
Clayton-Breckinridge.
Washington, June 3.—The sub-com
mittee of the house committee on elec
tions has decided not to delay the
Clayton-Breckinridge contested election
case in Arkansas for the purpose of tak
ing the testimony of California wit
nesses in regard to the alleged com
plicity of Hooper in the murder of John
L. Clayton.
Four Years on Crutches.
For fifteen years I was afflicted with rheu
raatlsm, lour years Ot which I was compelled
to go on crutches. Wo>'ds are inadequate to
express the suffering I endured during that
time. During these fifteen years of exis
tence fit w;is not living), I tried every known
remedy without receiving any benefit. I
finally began on Swift's Specific (S. S. S.),
which from the first gave me relief, and to
o:iy I am enjoying the best of health,and am
n well man. I candidly b"licve that S. S. S.
Is 1 lie best blood purifier on the market to
day. J. i). TAYLOR, Cuba, Mo.
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NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS.
THE REGULAR ANNUAL MEETING OF
the stockholders of the Alhambra Addition
Water Company, will be held at the office of the
company, at the San Gabriel Winery, San
Gabriel, Cal., on Tuesday, June 10th, IS9O, at
10 o'clock a. m.
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